EXHIBIT
4.3
NEITHER THE ISSUANCE
AND SALE OF THE SECURITIES REPRESENTED BY THIS CERTIFICATE NOR THE
SECURITIES INTO WHICH THESE SECURITIES ARE CONVERTIBLE HAVE BEEN
REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED, OR
APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS. THE SECURITIES MAY NOT BE
OFFERED FOR SALE, SOLD, TRANSFERRED OR ASSIGNED (I) IN THE ABSENCE
OF (A) AN EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION STATEMENT FOR THE SECURITIES UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED, OR (B) AN OPINION OF
COUNSEL (WHICH COUNSEL SHALL BE SELECTED BY THE HOLDER), IN A
GENERALLY ACCEPTABLE FORM, THAT REGISTRATION IS NOT REQUIRED UNDER
SAID ACT OR (II) UNLESS SOLD PURSUANT TO RULE 144 OR RULE 144A
UNDER SAID ACT. NOTWITHSTANDING THE FOREGOING, THE SECURITIES
MAY BE PLEDGED IN CONNECTION WITH A BONA FIDE MARGIN ACCOUNT OR
OTHER LOAN OR FINANCING ARRANGEMENT SECURED BY THE
SECURITIES.
THE HOLDER, AND ANY
ASSIGNMENT BY ACCEPTANCE OF THIS NOTE, ACKNOWLEDGE AND AGREE THAT,
BY REASON OF THE PROVISIONS OF THIS NOTE, FOLLOWING CONVERSION OF A
PORTION OF THIS NOTE, THE UNPAID AND UNCONVERTED PRINCIPAL AMOUNT
OF THIS NOTE MAY BE LESS THAN THE AMOUNT STATED ON THE FACE
HEREOF.
THE HOLDER’S
CONVERSION RIGHTS WILL BE EXERCISABLE ONLY DURING THE PENDENCY OF
AN EVENT OF DEFAULT.
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Principal Amount:
$250,000.00
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Issue Date: March 4,
2009
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SECURED
CONVERTIBLE PROMISSORY NOTE
FOR VALUE RECEIVED,
MONEY4GOLD HOLDINGS, INC., a Delaware corporation (hereinafter
called “Borrower”), hereby promises to pay to
WHALEHAVEN CAPITAL FUND LIMITED, c/o Grushko & Mittman, P.C.,
551 Fifth Avenue, Suite 1601, New York, NY 10176, Fax: (201)
586-0258 (the “Holder”) or its registered assigns
or successors in interest or order, without demand, the sum of Two
Hundred and Fifty Thousand Dollars ($250,000.00) (“Principal
Amount”), on June 1, 2009 (the “Maturity Date”),
if not sooner paid.
This Note has been
entered into pursuant to the terms of a subscription agreement
between the Borrower and the Holder dated at or about the date
hereof (the “Subscription Agreement”), and shall be
governed by the terms of such Subscription Agreement. Unless
otherwise separately defined herein, all capitalized terms used in
this Note shall have the same meaning as is set forth in the
Subscription Agreement. The following terms shall apply to
this Note:
ARTICLE
I
INTEREST;
PREPAYMENT
1.1.
Interest
Rate .
Subject to Section 6.7 hereof, interest payable on this
Note shall accrue on the outstanding Principal Amount at a rate per
annum (the "Interest Rate") of fifteen percent (15%).
Interest shall compound monthly. Interest on the
outstanding Principal Amount shall accrue from the date of this
Note and shall be payable in arrears together with, at the same
time and in the same manner as payment of Principal Amount and on
the Maturity Date, whether by acceleration or otherwise.
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1.2.
Default Interest
Rate .
Following the occurrence and during the continuance of an
Event of Default (as defined in Article IV), the annual interest
rate on this Note shall (subject to Section 6.7) be eighteen
percent (18%).
1.3.
Prepayment
. The
principal amount of this Note may be prepaid at Borrower’s
election in whole or in part at any time prior to June 1, 2009,
provided that interest on the prepaid principal amount of this Note
is paid through June 1, 2009, at the time of such principal
prepayment.
ARTICLE II
CONVERSION RIGHTS
2.1.
Holder’s
Conversion Rights . Subject to Section
2.2, the Holder shall have the right, but not the obligation, to
convert all or any portion of the then aggregate outstanding
Principal Amount of this Note, together with interest and fees due
hereon, and any sum arising under the Subscription Agreement, and
the Transaction Documents, including but not limited to Liquidated
Damages, into shares of Common Stock, subject to the terms and
conditions set forth in this Article II, at the average of the
three (3) lowest closing bid prices within the prior
20-trading day period calculated as of the date of a
conversion notice(“Conversion Price”), as the same may
be adjusted pursuant to this Note and the Subscription Agreement.
The Holder may exercise such right by delivery to the Borrower of a
written Notice of Conversion pursuant to Section 2.3. The
Holder may exercise Holder’s Conversion rights only during
the pendency of an Event of Default.
2.2.
Conversion
Limitation .
Neither Holder nor the Borrower may convert on any date
that the amount of the Note Principal or interest in connection
with that number of shares of Common Stock which would be in excess
of the sum of (i) the number of shares of Common Stock beneficially
owned by the Holder and its affiliates on a Conversion Date,
Repayment Date, the date Notice of Redemption is given, or the date
Notice of Mandatory Conversion is given, as the case may be, (ii)
any Common Stock issuable in connection with the unconverted
portion of the Note, and (iii) the number of shares of Common Stock
issuable upon the conversion or repayment of the Note with respect
to which the determination of this provision is being made, which
would result in beneficial ownership by the Holder and its
affiliates of more than 4.99% of the outstanding shares of Common
Stock of the Borrower on such Conversion Date. For the
purposes of the provision to the immediately preceding sentence,
beneficial ownership shall be determined in accordance with Section
13(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and
Regulation 13d-3 thereunder. Subject to the foregoing, the
Holder shall not be limited to aggregate conversions of only 4.99%
and aggregate conversion by the Holder may exceed 4.99%. The
Holder shall have the authority and obligation to determine whether
the restriction contained in this Section 2.2 will limit any
conversion hereunder and to the extent that the Holder determines
that the limitation contained in this Section applies, the
determination of which portion of the Note is convertible shall be
the responsibility and obligation of the Holder. The Holder
may waive the conversion limitation described in this Section 2.2,
in whole or in part, upon and effective after 61 days prior written
notice to the Borrower to increase such percentage to up to
9.99%.
2.3.
Holder’s
Conversion Procedure .
(a)
In the event that the
Holder elects to convert any amounts outstanding under this Note
into Common Stock, the Holder shall give notice of such election by
delivering an executed and completed notice of conversion (a
“Notice of Conversion”) to the Borrower, which Notice
of Conversion shall provide a breakdown in reasonable detail of the
Principal Amount, accrued interest and amounts being converted.
The original Note is not required to be surrendered to the Borrower until all sums due under the Note have been paid.
On each Conversion Date (as hereinafter defined) and in
accordance with its Notice of Conversion, the Holder shall make the
appropriate reduction to the Principal Amount, accrued interest and
fees as entered in its records. Each date on which a Notice
of Conversion is delivered or
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telecopied to the
Borrower in accordance with the provisions hereof shall be deemed a
“Conversion Date.” A form of Notice of Conversion
to be employed by the Holder is annexed hereto as Exhibit
A.
(b)
Pursuant to the terms of
a Notice of Conversion, the Borrower will issue instructions to the
transfer agent accompanied by an opinion of counsel (if so required
by the Borrower’s transfer agent), and, except as otherwise
provided below, shall cause the transfer agent to transmit the
certificates representing the Conversion Shares to the Holder by
crediting the account of the Holder’s designated broker with
the Depository Trust Corporation (“DTC”) through its
Deposit Withdrawal Agent Commission (“DWAC”) system
within three (3) business days after receipt by the Borrower of the
Notice of Conversion (the “Delivery Date”). In the case
of the exercise of the conversion rights set forth herein, the
conversion privilege shall be deemed to have been exercised and the
Conversion Shares issuable upon such conversion shall be deemed to
have been issued upon the date of receipt by the Borrower of the
Notice of Conversion. The Holder shall be treated for all purposes
as the beneficial holder of such shares of Common Stock, or, in the
case that Borrower delivers physical certificates as set forth
below, the record holder of such shares of Common Stock, unless the
Holder provides the Borrower written instructions to the contrary.
Notwithstanding the foregoing to the
contrary, the Borrower or its transfer agent shall only be
obligated to issue and deliver the shares to the DTC on the
Holder’s behalf via DWAC (or certificates free of restrictive
legends) if the registration statement providing for the resale of
the shares of Common Stock issuable upon the conversion of this
Note is effective or the shares may otherwise be delivered without
restrictive legend. In the event that Conversion Shares
cannot be delivered to the Holder via DWAC, the Borrower shall
deliver physical certificates representing the Conversion Shares by
the Delivery Date to an address designated by Holder in the U.S.
In any event, all shares of Common Stock deliverable pursuant
to Sections 2.1 and 2.4 must be delivered without restrictive or
other legends, unless the exemption provided by Rule 144 under the
Securities Act of 1933 or other applicable exemption is
unavailable..
2.4.
Conversion Mechanics
and Adjustments .
(a)
The number of shares of
Common Stock to be issued upon each conversion of this Note
pursuant to this Article III shall be determined by dividing that
portion of the Principal Amount and interest and fees to be
converted, if any, by the then applicable Conversion Price or the
conversion price described in Section 2.1, as
applicable.
(b)
The Conversion Price and
number and kind of shares or other securities to be issued upon
conversion shall be subject to adjustment from time to time upon
the happening of certain events while this conversion right remains
outstanding, as follows:
A.
Merger, Sale of
Assets, etc .
If (A) the Borrower effects any merger or consolidation
of the Borrower with or into another entity, (B) the Borrower
effects any sale of all or substantially all of its assets in one
or a series of related transactions, (C) any tender offer or
exchange offer (whether by the Borrower or another entity) is
completed pursuant to which holders of Common Stock are permitted
to tender or exchange their shares for other securities, cash or
property, (D) the Borrower consummates a stock purchase agreement
or other business combination (including, without limitation, a
reorganization, recapitalization, spin-off or scheme of
arrangement) with one or more persons or entities whereby such
other persons or entities acquire more than the 50% of the
outstanding shares of Common Stock (not including any shares of
Common Stock held by such other persons or entities making or party
to, or associated or affiliated with the other persons or entities
making or party to, such stock purchase agreement or other business
combination), (E) any "person" or "group" (as these terms are used
for purposes of Sections 13(d) and 14(d) of the 1934 Act) is or
shall become the "beneficial owner" (as defined in Rule 13d-3 under
the 1934 Act), directly or indirectly, of 50% of the aggregate
Common Stock of the Borrower, or (F) the Borrower effects any
reclassification of the Common Stock or any compulsory share
exchange pursuant to which the Common Stock is effectively
converted into or exchanged for other securities, cash or property
(in any such case, a "Fundamental Transaction"), this Note,
as to the unpaid principal portion thereof and accrued interest
thereon, shall thereafter be deemed to evidence the right
to
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convert into such number
and kind of shares or other securities and property as would have
been issuable or distributable on account of such Fundamental
Transaction, upon or with respect to the securities subject to the
conversion right immediately prior to such Fundamental Transaction.
The foregoing provision shall similarly apply to successive
Fundamental Transactions of a similar nature by any such successor
or purchaser. Without limiting the generality of the
foregoing, the anti-dilution provisions of this Section shall apply
to such securities of such successor or purchaser after any such
Fundamental Transaction.
B.
Reclassification,
etc .
If the Borrower at any time shall, by reclassification or
otherw